Posted - 2013.06.28 14:19:00 -
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I just started running my scout a couple of days ago, using shotgun and nova knives... I gotta say, it's a lot of fun. I'd like to be put on the board, soon as I hit my 1,000 kills!

Have no clue about my amount of kills - will check that and post once I get home from work. My KDR is around 0.85 and what I have found is that even though my FPS game isnt great, being a scout forces me to play much more realistic than just running and gunning and giving away my life cheaply as I did with assault.

I have two scouts - scrambler / flaylock which I hope to change to a combat rifle / flaylock and my main scout - knives and remote explosives.

Posted - 2013.06.28 16:04:00 -
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Wow, look at all these brave scouts. Glad I'm in here! I once saw RADAR slice a guy and disappear with his quickness. I tried chasing him, he lost me.

Shotty, I still haven't formed a good squad under our channel. I love what you did here, we all need to "register" so our K/D can match our different roles. You will register your dropsuit, and weapons to confirm kills i.e. Niuvo-Scout-Sniper and Nova knives. K/D x-y.I am currently adding contacts of other snipers/NVers that have defeated me, so I can get a revenge kill later.

Again I like your registry here. Boy, is it exciting going up against another scout! It can be awesome if we team up together and bring havoc on the enemy.

Posted - 2013.06.28 16:51:00 -
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I've been a Scout for over a Year. My kills are not as high as other's because all i played was Skirmish when they had the Stat tracking bug (still [email protected] pissed they never compensated us for that)

Posted - 2013.06.28 17:05:00 -
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Not got much SP specced into any suit or weapon but Heavy/FG/Scram-Pistol.

Got Biotics at 5 and Kin Cat 3. Tend to run a MLT Minja with 2 Enhanced Kinetics, a MLT Shotgun and a Scrambler. That or a STD Minmatar M-frame with a similar setup.

Probably doesn't count. Likely not going down the Light dropsuit skill trees anytime soon, going Min Medium to open up the Logi. Basic frame is going to be doing it's best as a high-speed shotgunner but it's not the same... would be like Tingle. A grown man (m-frame) trying to pass himself off as a fairy (minja).

I've been a Scout for over a Year. My kills are not as high as other's because all i played was Skirmish when they had the Stat tracking bug (still [email protected] pissed they never compensated us for that)

I've been a Scout for over a Year. My kills are not as high as other's because all i played was Skirmish when they had the Stat tracking bug (still [email protected] pissed they never compensated us for that)

I've been a Scout for over a Year. My kills are not as high as other's because all i played was Skirmish when they had the Stat tracking bug (still [email protected] pissed they never compensated us for that)

I've been a Scout for over a Year. My kills are not as high as other's because all i played was Skirmish when they had the Stat tracking bug (still [email protected] pissed they never compensated us for that)

Posted - 2013.06.28 17:41:00 -
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Damn shotty.. awesome thread! You got your work cut out for you now tho, eh buddy? Being in the spot light to us scouts is like a 2 year old holding a fork near an outlet. we can't resist! They are coming out of the wood works!

Scientists said there was a lunar eclipse yesturday, now we know why! 5 mins after you made this thread the women of this world let out a collective sigh.

Oh.. man I haven't seen something more cooler..

*that's not a word *

YOUR not a word! like I was saying I haven't seen nothing more cooler then when KFC announced the double down! now that was an exciting moment!

I recently created this character with the only purpose of being a a full-time sniper scout girl.

After some time out of the Academy (which was... lol), I started to feel the need of a more solid protection. And that was becoming a real nightmare, being a one-shot target for anyone. "No, I want to be a Scout, damn! I won't give up!"But there was another voice inside me:"Hahahah, you just have 2 hi-powered slots, and as soon as you get Proto, you will have just one! Loser! How do you expect to kill people like that? Your charged sniper is like a water gun!""Hahahah, you can be one-shotted by the first noob with a Militia sniper rifle that accidentaly gets your butt in his scope!""Hahahah, you can't even equip complex light damage modifiers without putting CPU upgrades in your crappy dropsuit!"

But I've found the reason for me. My reason to be a Scout.

I'm still a one-shot target. But I no longer care.

My reason is... my friends. My squad.

I run fast. Very fast.I can move fast enough to support my team anytime, no matter what, and I guide them.I see everything they need to know. My squad channel is like: twoenemiescomingfromcharlietobravooneofthemisprotoanLAVisenteringthecitadelfromthesouthwestgateheadingtobravoimdeadtheresanothersniperonthehillsinfrontofdelta (5 seconds brake to respawn)"

Without the massive damage bonus of 3-4 modules I couldn't one-shot people as I wanted. Even enemy snipers were surviving to the first shot too many times.So I switched to the TAC sniper. It really helps my squad A LOT and I actually have more chances to land a second shot and almost insta-kill enemies.At the end of the game I usually got a couple kills and 20 or more assists. But you know what?

My team loves me. My friends love me. I'm always the squad leader and I know where to unleash chaos with an orbital strike.This is my role and I ****ing love it. They can't even play without me. Now DUST is boring when I can't do this. Sniping solo is AWFUL and I do it sometimes to get SP. But it's not even remotely entertaining.

I really think Scout is not a viable choice as a solo sniper, when Assault can survive a charged rifle shot and has 3-4 slots for damage mods. So this IS a problem. Sniper should be a stealth role. Assault HP-tank snipers GTFO!

Scouts are great as team snipers and guides. And they have their place IN the battlefield as shotgunners/assassins/spotters, etc... but they need some more love. Definitely.One more module slot and a bit better CPU would not hurt.

Wel i do snipe from time to time but I use a minmatar advanced logi with three enhanced dampners and complex damage modifiers, a uplink and a hive.

So long as you spend the majority of your time fighting in a scout suit, you should be included in the Scout Registry. Don't want to offset our Scoutly statistics with Tears collected by folks running Medium or Heavy Frames, as these Tears have less per-unit value .

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